[Magdalen] Pistorius Trial.

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

There has been very heavy USA media coverage of this trial
which seems to have dragged on forever.
 
Yesterday there were comments during this TV coverage from
five different South Africans, both black (the judge) and white,
(including Pistorius).
 
The judge was only partially comprehensible to me, but I suspect
that for her, maybe English is a second language (?)
 
The other four were variably understood by me, probably secondary
to some very unusual (to me) vowel pronunciation.
 
I had forgotten that South Africa has its own strong regional accent,
as I keep lumping South Africans in with Aussies and New Zealanders.
If these five on the news are any indication, my assumptions are
obviously simplistic.
 
 
David Strang - Struggling with his own Great Northern Cities Vowel  Shift.